With the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit, you can use the ready made Windows Azure Packages that use ACS or Membership to manage users to Windows Azure Storage. These packages require you to have a SSL certificate. More than likely you are running on a Mac.
This is pretty straight forward. You will need to create a certificate and then create a PKCS12 (.pfx) file for it. You can generate the certificate from terminal using openssl with the following steps:
- open a terminal window
- enter the command:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout iOSWAToolkit.pem -out iOSWAToolkit.pem- iOSWAToolkit is the name of the file you want and can be anything you like.
- This will create a certificate that you can use to create the PKCS12 certificate. This command will ask for all the information for your cert that you enter.
- enter the command:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out iOSWAToolkit.pfx -in iOSWAToolkit.pem -name "iOSWAToolkit"- iOSWAToolkit is the name of the file you want and can be anything you like.
- This will ask you for a password that you need to remember so you can enter it when uploading to Windows Azure.
- enter the command:
openssl x509 -outform der -in iOSWAToolkit.pem -out iOSWAToolkit.cer- This will export a certificate with the public key which is what you will need for the service config file.
You will have two certificates that you will need to get the Cloud Ready Package(s) deployed. This is really easy when you use the Cloud Configuration Utility.